| If the same amount of system were applied to | | | | try to teach carpentry without the use of a |
| the teaching of various forms of drawing that | | | | set square or tape measure. |
| is devoted to the teaching of writing, You | | | | |
| wouldn't so often hear people say, "Oh no, I | | | | Experienced teachers of drawing are aware |
| could never learn to draw! They tried to | | | | that the easier they make the study, the |
| teach me at school, but I was no good, I had | | | | greater, and quicker, the progress of the |
| to give it up as a bad job." | | | | student. And do not hesitate to make use of |
| | | | all the aids available. The use of things |
| What would you think about the same person | | | | such as rulers, compasses, grid or tracing |
| who said the same thing about learning to | | | | paper, are to be encouraged, not frowned |
| write? You'd probably think that it was a | | | | upon. Study should be a pleasure, a |
| pretty stupid thing to say, and you'd be | | | | recreation even, and not a hardship or |
| right. Now, that's not necessarily the | | | | distasteful task. |
| students fault. The number of failures in | | | | |
| drawing classes is no doubt due to an almost | | | | If you can learn to write, you can learn to |
| total lack of system in teaching the | | | | draw. From this it follows that if someone |
| fundamentals, and the denial to students of | | | | wishes to learn to draw they should seek the |
| basic teaching aids. | | | | best instruction they can afford. Now it's |
| | | | pretty obvious that not many would be |
| So called "freehand drawing" is at the bottom | | | | students of cartooning are going to be able |
| of most failures to grasp the groundwork | | | | to afford professional one to one tuition, |
| knowledge necessary to enable almost anyone | | | | which is certainly the best route. However |
| to make simple, accurate, drawings from | | | | there are several courses available that will |
| copies or other models. "Freehand" drawing | | | | take the student from would be cartoonist to |
| should probably becalled "Hap-Hazard" | | | | paid artist in only a few weeks. |
| drawing. | | | | |
| | | | These courses need not be expensive, |
| A teacher of handwriting instructs according | | | | especially when you consider the earning |
| to a recognised system. He/she requires the | | | | potential when the skill has been aquired. |
| use of guide lines for the formation of the | | | | They can also be great fun, and the way to a |
| written characters - the faint blue lines on | | | | hobby for life, or lucrative sideline, even |
| some writing pads etc. | | | | if you don't want to be a full time |
| | | | cartoonist. |
| The average drawing teacher on the other | | | | |
| hand, encourages the novice student to go | | | | OK, so you really want to learn to be a |
| ahead blindly and do the best they can. | | | | cartoonist, check out available courses, and |
| Avoiding every aid and depending only upon | | | | please take one if you are at all serious. I |
| the untrained eye and hand. You may as well | | | | can promise you will not regret it. |